It All Adds Up, Saul Bellow
It All Adds Up, Saul Bellow
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It All Adds Up
From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future; A Nonfiction Collection

Author: Saul Bellow

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2019


Synopsis

In this collection of more than thirty essays, published in the New York Times, Esquire, and the New Republic, the vast range of Saul Bellow’s nonfiction is made abundantly clear. In Bellow’s capable hands, a single essay can range fluidly across topics as various as the talents of President Roosevelt, the economic narrative of Jay Gatsby, and childhood adventures in Chicago. This rich mix of literary, political, and personal musings allows Bellow to explore subjects as enormous as the writer’s search for truth, and as minute as the discomforts of a French doctors’ office. Traveling from Washington to Spain to the Sinai Peninsula, and profiling friends and characters such as John Cheever and John Berryman, Bellow is keenly focused and perceptive. This collection, spanning a lifetime of thought and debate, presents provocative arguments and erudite literary criticism, all with the wry humor of a great storyteller. In It All Adds Up, Bellow turns his view away from the sparkling characters of his novels, and toward the conditions and qualities of his own experience of writing and living.

About Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (1915–2005), author of numerous novels, novellas, and stories, was the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards. He was also the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and many other awards and honors.

About Malcolm Hillgartner

Malcolm Hillgartner has narrated over 175 audiobooks. He was named an AudioFile Best Voice of 2013. His work ranges from children's titles such as On the Blue Comet (AudioFile Best of 2011, Earphones), and Neal Stevenson's sci-fi epic REAMDE (Audible.com Best of 2011) to the biographies Kissinger (AudioFile Best of 2013, Earphones) and Cheever (AudioFile Best of 2009, Earphones). He is also an accomplished actor, writer, and musician. With his wife and partner, Jahnna Beecham, he has written over 130 books for teens and young readers, as well as the musicals Chaps! and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Musical, which have been produced in the U.S. and Canada.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Esteban

Leí “Todo cuenta” con la sensación de cercanía que rara vez un autor establece con sus lectores. Esta colección de ensayos, crónicas y artículos pareciera girar alrededor de la inquietud por ser norteamericano; una pregunta que para Bellow se plantea en términos de qué significa ser norteamericano,......more

"Con tutta probabilità non ho raggiunto gli scopi che mi ero prefisso, ma la soddisfazione più grande è quella di essermi liberato dei tenaci errori del passato. Di entrare in un'epoca di errori migliori." (p. 11) "Il modo in cui si sfidano le proprie convinzioni esponendole al rischio della distruzi......more


Quotes

“[One of the] most gifted chroniclers in the Western world.” The Times (London)

“Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have.” New York Times Book Review